The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-01-12
Herbert (Alabama) then called up the

4 tue House 20 lnLO u I06
whole for the purpose of considering
ne bill amendatory of an act estab-
| fishing Bureau of Animal Indus try.
| H referred TO tie recent outbre ak of
cattle diNea in Chicago. Hatch made
| il q imperative necessity that sthe
House should pass the bill, for every
hour of delay was dangerous.
Swinburne New York; hoped the bill
| would not now be considered, as it has
never been considered by the Commits
/ sioner OF Agriculture
Hatch declared the statement was
misleading. The bill had been cOnsid
cred il the committee and a favorable
report ordered.
Hatch's motion was agreed to and
| the House, accordingly, went into COM
| mlttee of the whole on the bill
stated. Mr.. Hatch laid that tie
present 'aw was be; III far
as it went, but that it did not go
| far enough. 1t was inetfivlo % in
adequate to suppress the Spr ad of
| pleuro-pneumonia which, il not con
| trolled by national legislation, wouli in
a short time absolutely destroy he
value OF the cattle Industry. Enc dan
! ger could not be overestimated. The
| loss IN dollars and cents to he people
OF the United States when the first qua
was fired at Sumter usheiing in the re-
belliOn, was not greater than that
threatened by the outbreak OF plruro-
pneumonia. Proceeding to a considera
ton of the details OF the bill,
he said that the danger con
sisted chiefly in the removal Of the
restriction upon the Commissioners
of agriculture as 10 the empl y ment of
| force o enforce the law and in EN-
powering the commissioner, with c.
| operation of the State authorizes under
! the State laws, to condemn and destroy
infected cattle. The right did not exist
under the present law of the commits
| siOner being able TO get posses ion Of
| the objected cattle by purchase rom the
owner and some States nau pro-
NOTED the commissioner to enter for
| the purpOse Of enforcing the law. 1t
| was provided in the pending bill that
when the State refused or neglected to
| cooperate with the commissioners, the
! President should declare that State in
quarantine and prohibit the transport
! ton of cattle out of it.
| Mr.. Mcmillan Crennes seel inquired
WI ether a COW afflicted with pleuro-
pneumonia was not worthless?
Mr. Hatch replied that it was worse e
than useless.
Mcmillan further inquired WHY, if the
COW was worse than useless, the Trea-
sury should be compelled TO pay the
value of the animal before it contracted
1.-THE diSease2
Mr.. Hatch replied that this provision
was based upon the experience of the
most enlightened governments in the
management of disease for 100 years. 1t
r., oOpoaaf "a of tbp
disease and so hard TO detect it, that
some compensation must be given to
the owners Of infected cattle, or all the
money which could be appropriated
would not stamp out the disease.
Mr.. McMlllan-1hen, you propose to
induce any man who owns a herd of
cattle afflicted with disea:e 20 bring it
in and sell il?
Mr.. Hatch Yes, the object is to in
duce any man who owns herd OF cat
tie afflicted with pieuro-pneumonia to
give Immediate notice to the depart
ment in order thatit may be condemned
and be destroyed.
: Morgan (Mis ouD opposed he bill on
| the ground that it was vain ana Elusive
ami would a ount to nothing. 1t did
not reach the evil which it was intende
to rea n, and was a mere myth. He
agreed with the gentleman from New
YErk Mr.. SwInbUrne) who had sub
mltted the minority report, that the
! disease should be treated in the same
, manner as diseases among human be
ingS, and that there was no more rea-
son for the destruction of the diseased
cattle than there was for the des5ruc
ton Of human beings who were afH cted
, with smallpox or yellow fever.
,1xNA, \ Tiao u nv
pl ur)-pneumonia was a contagious
disease.
MIR. Morgan replied that it was q
communicable disease.
Nj, Morgan said that some diseases
were contagious, some communicable
and some infectious, but that the bill
took in the whole. He further criticised
the oil in that it authorizes the PresI-
dent, on the recommendation OF the
Commissioner of Agriculture, to place q
state in quarantine, which would virtu-
ally put 1t IN the power OF the COM
missioner TO suspend the commerce OF
any Sta
Mr. Swinburne New York;, a mem
Der OF the committee who presented
the minority report, mad that report
! read as part of his remarks. In the re-
port he saws: Both the original bill
and the substitute offered by the chair
man of the committee on agriculture
re-enact tue power of the commissioner
of agriculture and extend them, so that
wherever il the opinion of the commits
sion it is deemed necessary to appr0lse
! and slaughter the diseased cattle and
compensate the owners by the original
! bill at four-dfths of their value, and by
! the substitute of the chairman OF the
commissioner on agriculture at three
| fourths. The whole argument OF the
chief of the Bureau of Animal Indus
try is an effort to convince the nation,
particularly Congress, to whom ne
appeals for large approximation. that
there is but one remedy, and that IS the
total extirpation of the disease
by slaughter. Ii such system IS to
adopted, he would recommend the
changing of the name of the depart
ment from that of Bureau of Animal
Industry to the Bureau OF Butchery for
the Destruction of Domestic Animals
the United States to be in charge OF g
corps of butcher boys, who would De
as well qualified for the positions as
the present head of the bureau
seems to be competent for his
In this recommends tion, the CHIEF
advocates the very absurd proposition
that liberal indt unity should &c
| Maid the owner of carrI. m reDOrt cases